Legendary screenwriting instructor and award-winning writer Paul Chitlik presents an easy-to-read, step-by-step process to take your script from first draft to
submission draft. He reveals the hidden structure of screenplays, sequences, and scenes, as he guides you through the process of examining your draft, restructuring it, and populating it with believable, complex, and compelling characters. Along the way he outlines how to make your action leap off the page and your dialogue crackle. While the first edition was widely used in film school rewriting classes, it was also recommended as an introduction to screenwriting craft by a number of professors and professionals. Paul Chitlik has included, for the second edition, more examples, exercises, and applications for television, the web, and other media, using a wide range of citations in film, television, and the Internet to underline his approach.
ISBN-13: 9781615931576
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wiese - Michael Productions
Publication Date: 11-01-2013
Pages: 236
Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Screenwriter/producer/director Paul Chitlik has written for all the major networks and studios. He was story editor for The New Twilight Zone, and staff writer for Showtime’s Brothers. He has written features for Rysher Entertainment, NuImage, Promark, and others. He currently is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University, one of the Top 20 film schools in the world. He consults for the government of Chile’s film development process. He has presented workshops and consulted for ScreenWest, Australia; ScreenAustralia and the Australian Writers Guild. His screenwriting retreats have been held in Italy, France, Spain, Berkeley, and Los Angeles. He has spoken at a number of screenwriting conferences.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Clarifying Story and Structure for Impact
Chapter 2 – The Alternative Structure (Mythic Structure)
Chapter 3 – The Powerful Protagonist
Chapter 4 – The Central Emotional Relationship
Chapter 5 – The Worthy Antagonist
Chapter 6 – Ensuring Dynamic Scenes and Sequences
Chapter 7 – Dialogue: Text, Subtext, and No Text
Chapter 8 – Making Descriptions Leap off the Page
Chapter 9 – Life Support for Your Protagonist
Chapter 10 – Paring It Down
Chapter 11 – Where Am I?
Chapter 12 – The Right Look
Chapter 13 – Finishing
Chapter 14 – Applying Rewrite Techniques to Webisodes, Television, Comics, Graphic Novels, Games, and Other Media Yet to Be Discovered
Appendices
A –The seven points of Thelma and Louise.
B – The seven points of Ratatouille.
C –The seven points, more or less, of Pirates of the Caribbean.
D – The beatsheet of In Good Company
E –Alien Abduction – the first sequence and how it developed.
Bibliography
Index
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